As we get into summer and covid levels continue to fall, a lot of contra dances are rethinking their approaches to masking. At this point contra dances are the only places I go that require masks, though they're also the closest I get to large numbers of people.

Prompted by an initial search Harris shared with me, I used TryContra to get a list of all 39 New England dances and manually checked their mask rules. I found a bit under half of dances require them (sheet):

State	Required	Optional	Percentage Required
MA	12	3	80%
ME	0	11	0%
CT	0	5	0%
NH	1	3	25%
VT	2	1	67%
RI	0	1	0%
Total	15	24	38%